Fairlight-CMI

Hi group,

I can't give you too much background info on the Vince Clarke mp3.  I 
would have loved to scan the article in but...read on.

Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music was a magazine published in 
the UK between 1983 and 1985 to compete with Electronics and Music 
Maker (E&MM).  The magazine feature bands of the time , the gear of 
the time and readers musical efforts.  I know Kate and her Fairlight 
featured in E&MM and she featured into ES&CM too. 
http://gaffa.org/reaching/i83_es.html

From October 1985 to September 1985 it also came with a C60 
cassette.  I had ALL the issues until my Mum in a fit of tidiness 
threw them out (along with my E&MMs) when I was at University some 
years later.

Fortunately I have retained all the tapes.  The tapes contain various 
synths, sampler and drum machines demos along with amateur and 
professional band demos and songs.  I can mention demos of Emulator 
II, Ensoniq Mirage, Kurzweil 250, Yamaha TX816,  PPG 2.3 with 
Waveterm B etc etc all the big synths/samplers of that time.  If 
anyone is interested in hearing a particular synth again, give me a 
shout and I see if its on the tape.

Incidentally, they published a circuit and some software for the ZX 
Spectrum to make a sound sampler which I successfully built.  You 
could only playback monophonically and sample for only a second at 
25kHz but you could play it back from you analog synth CV output.  
Lots of aliasing (like the Fairlight) because it had NO filters.  I 
made a lot of demos with this unit for drum loops and I remember 
sampling Kate Bush Fairlight samples from The Hounds Of Love - ha - 
the circle closes!  I still have that (awfully) primitive demo on 
tape - hell it was 1985 and I was 15 and I had no money.

Cheers

Chris

P.S.  I still have the ZX Spectrum,  the sampler box I made and the 
software!!!